Study area :The Palayam is developed as the Cantonment area during British time. Today it acts as the gateway to Trivandrum City.
a Study is intended to find out the uniqueness of this urban area, thus a more effective redevelopment strategy can be formulated. The failure of master plan of many eminent architects, in the concept it self encourage us to take up this issue and look at it from a different level.

 

 

University College 

 

Sansktit College 

Educational Institutions 

 

St. Joseph Cathedral 

 

Religious Institutions 

Juma Masjid 

 

 

Public Institution 

Victoria Jublee Town Hall 

 

Existing Builtform 

 

Market Square 

 

 

Informal Market 

Attitude of the design strategy was against the mega structure mega development. The attempt was to devise a system to develop it in a piecemeal fashion, with public participation, To understand the uniqueness of the area to be sympathetic to the morphology of Palayam.

Proposal was mainly idea of implementation the rules and regulation formed through the study. This was put to test so as to find out protectable mix of structure- form, use. .